Kenosha County Land Patents

Real Estate Transfer Index for Kenosha County

This index gives the names of people who sold and purchased land in Kenosha County.
The land description will help you find the records at the Kenosha County Register of Deeds.
Also included in this link are terms commonly used in land records.

Kenosha County 100-Year Properties

Roster of 100-Year Properties and Families Continues to
Grow
Published in the Kenosha Evening News
Saturday, July 3, 1948Reprinted here with the permission of the Kenosha News

Kenosha County, being one of the early settling points of the state, has
more than its share of families that can count more than a century since
their arrival here and has already recorded many farms and properties that
have been carried through generations of Kenoshans for more than a century.
Work in Families Division of the State Centennial Observance and research
that seeks permanent state-wide record of early settling family units was
begun months ago under the leadership of Mrs. Alice Bright Parker of Fort
Atkinson, who is the state chairman of the division. Families Division work
was the first State Centennial activity to start in Kenosha county since
that phase of the celebration pre-dated the decision of the county board
to participate in the date wide observances on an official basis. The work
has continued as a part of the Centennial program with Miss Carrie Cropley
as chairman of a committee that includes Mmes. B.S. Benson, Joel Walker,
Minnie Ozanne, and Mrs. Lynn Shermann.

Several other firsts

There are several other "firsts" in connection with this work. A large volume
of valuable material has been prepared and filed by members of various families.
Kenosha was the first, if not the only, county to keep transcripts of this
before the original copies were sent to Mrs. Parker. This will be bound
in book form for future reference, so that it will not be necessary to go
to Madison for research on some questions of local history and genealogy
in later years. Kenosha County and Grant County are the two leading counties
in the mass of family history obtained. The history of properties, especially
farms, is also a part of the work of this division. Recently it has been
decided to issue certificates signed by the governor of the state to families
who fill out and file blanks provided for that purpose, one for 100 year
families and one for 100 year farms. These are coming in still and probably
will conintue to do so for some weeks yet.

A long list of those families or properties concerning whom information has
already been filed is published:

Two farms that were sold a few years ago had been in the family for over
100 years: the Holt farm, for 106 years; the Riley farm for 100 years 6 months;
the latter was sold to a descendent of one of the first settlers of Southport,
Chester Allen.

100 year families
In the compilation of the 100 year families of Kenosha and Kenosha county,
the listing includes the biographer, the family and the date of arrival of
the first member in this area as follows:

Since large families were usual in the early days of the county and a number
of generations have passed, the number of families that can claim descent
from these pioneer families make a list long beyond possibility of publication
in this article.